Artificial intelligence is gradually changing medical practice. With the recent progress in data collection, advanced machine learning methods, and high-performance computing infrastructure, AI can assist in disease diagnosis, treatment selection, and prediction of patients' clinical outcomes.
It's a fact: Women get better with age
New research finds that post-menopausal women become happier as they get older. Read more ….
How long have you been sitting there?
Did you know that we spend over half of our day sitting?
Congratulations to Dr. Tony Ko, Geriatrician FRACMA to become head of Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority
Thank you very much for your clinical training at your ward rounds in Hong Kong when I was your intern back in 2002.
Great consultant general physician, specialist geriatrician and now a great medical administrator, a Fellow of Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators !
You will do a good job! Read more ….
Rubella is offically eradicated from Australia
A HORROR disease that kills and seriously harms unborn babies has been eradicated in Australia. Read more ….
Being too fat or too thin 'can cost four years of life'
Being overweight or underweight could knock four years off life expectancy, a study in a Lancet journal suggests. Read more …
Did you know your heart health affects your risk of dementia?
It’s one of the many things we learned from this story in which Alzheimer’s Research UK explains 15 of the main misconceptions – and realities – around dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease. Read more …
How seafood could help you age healthier
Omega-3s: you've probably at least heard of them. You may have a vague idea they're good for you. And a new study firms up that impression, linking them to healthier ageing. Read more …
Grandma Was Right: Sunshine Helps Kill Germs Indoors
Even before Florence Nightingale advised that hospitals be designed to let daylight in, people observed that sunshine helps keep you healthy. But there was not much research to explain why that's the case, especially inside buildings. Read more …
Hong Kong Wan Zhi Medical Services - The first Hong Kong owned medical centre in Guangzhou
Guangzhou Wanzhi (Hong Kong) Medical Clinic is the first wholly-owned Hong Kong-funded medical institution set up in the Mainland by the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA). Read more ….
